For a number of years I have spoken at and and have been honored by Black and white churches ... city's oldest Black churches and published a sketch of all those at least 100 years old.

Gabriel Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church can trace its roots back to 1866. It was built by freed Black families in Cuffeytown, the oldest self-sustaining African American community in Virginia.

We intend to take that evil and use it for good,’ says pastor of Metropolitan AME Church, which was awarded trademark of group that vandalized it.

Yet the independence of black churches was curbed by law and by the white Southern response to slave ... spurred in part by the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi.

The far-right extremist group known as the Proud Boys has officially lost control of its own name—and in a striking twist of justice, ownership now belongs to a Black church that the group once sought ...

The Rev. Wheeler Parker shared untold stories about what happened after Till was found murdered.